Samuel Seabury

Samuel Seabury (30 November 1729-25 February 1796) was Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 5 October 1789 to 8 September 1792, succeeding William White and preceding Samuel Provoost. During the American Revolution, he was a loyalist, but he decided to stay in the United States and served as the first Bishop of Connecticut from 1784 to 1796, preceding Abraham Jarvis.

Biography
Samuel Seabury was born on 30 November 1729 in Groton, Connecticut, the son of an ordained Anglican deacon. Seabury graduated from Yale College in 1748 and studied theology with his father, and he became a rector at various churches such as New Brunswick in New Jersey and Jamaica and Westchester (now a part of The Bronx) in New York. Seabury wrote "Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress", which included "A Farmer's Letter"; he said that the Congress did not speak for him, as he opposed the American Revolution. Alexander Hamilton responded with "A Farmer Refuted", where he criticized Seabury's views, and Hamilton said that his dog spoke more eloquently than Seabury, although their mange was the same. In November 1775, he was arrested by local patriots and was imprisoned in Connecticut for six weeks; he served as the chaplain of King's American Regiment during the American Revolutionary War. However, he was loyal to the United States after independence in 1783, and he became the first Episcopalian bishop of Connecticut. He died in 1796.